ENFP 9w8 Characters

Jiya mostly works in the control room in the first season, running things behind the scenes and figuring out how to optimize and improve on the systems. It’s when she’s asked to learn to fly the time machine in a simulator that she starts to struggle with it – but then we learn at the end of the series that she went on to create a new and improved model and installed auto pilot, so anyone and not just a trained specialist could learn to operate and fly the machine (enabling it to return to rescue them in the old west without Flynn being on board, which seems Ne/Te since it opens up an existing creation for greater ease of use). She went on to have a successful career in science and technology, for which she has become famous enough that people ask for her autograph. Jiya is open to ideas and interpretations of things more than Rufus—when she experiences visions that coincide with her recovery from a lifelong incurable heart murmur problem, Jiya believes that indicates a higher power and argues for the existence of God. (Rufus sees that as irrational.) She becomes so convinced there’s nothing she can do to change “fate” through her own experiences (seeing people die when she knew they would, even if the circumstances around them changed) that she doesn’t want Rufus to come back in time to rescue her, because he will die—and she’s right, he does. But Jiya is also quite emotional, sensitive, selfless, and quiet in her feelings. She experienced a lot of hardship and trouble in the old west, surviving for three years on her street smarts and adaptability alone—but she won’t talk about it. She covers up her scar, and tells Rufus merely that “eventually” she got away from the man who did that to her. But when he wants to talk to her about it, she can’t put it into words. It’s too personal and hidden too deep inside of herself. She is idealistic and tries to see the best in people. A lot of her concerns and reactions come from her subjective experiences (low Si); many times, she points out that she suspects this about Rufus’s motivations or cannot trust someone because “it was just like this when…” (my father was sick, he didn’t tell us anything; so I know you’re hiding this from me!). Jiya is a “nut” for old things, and is delighted when Rufus purchases her an original Rubix cube from the 1800s as a Christmas present. It’s just the sort of sentimental thing, a reminder of her love of old toys and gadgets, that she most enjoys.

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Where Rufus is a pessimist, Jiya prefers to be an optimist, relying on her belief that everything will turn out fine, that there’s a higher power in charge, and there’s nothing to worry about, even after she starts getting headaches and seeing visions after her time travel experience. She constantly ignores and downplays and minimizes her emotional experiences, refusing to talk about them and not wanting to trouble other people with them, while acting as if she’s going to be all right. But as she gets stressed, Jiya’s line to 6 shows up more strongly… she doesn’t want Rufus to take any chances and get killed, she starts excessively worrying about the people she loves, and she holds onto her friends as a source of reassurance in times of self-doubt and anxiety. Her 8 wing is fierce. Jiya shows a hard side to her when forced to survive in the old west, getting rough with people and using aggression to make her point (leave me alone). She is angry at Rufus for not listening to her, and for coming to rescue her, because she knows it will lead to his death. Jiya is stubborn and refuses to give up her friends under torture, and kills someone and escape after Rittenhouse kidnaps her, seeing it as necessary for her own survival.